After qualifying for the bar, Starmer acted exclusively as a defence lawyer specialising in human rights issues, before being appointed as a Queen's Counsel (QC) in 2002. The father-of-two QC, who owns and lives in a £1.75million house in Camden with his lawyer wife Victoria and also claims to not liking being called 'Sir', said yesterday: 'My background isn’t what people think it is'. Over the past two days the word 'millionaire' was deleted by users in north London and St Albans at least three times from his Wikipedia page. ", "Keir Starmer: 'The government has been slow in nearly all of the major decisions, After Corbyn, UK Labour elects Keir Starmer, Zionist with Jewish wife, as leader, "Knighthood: former Director of Public Prosecutions Keir Starmer QC", "The New Year Honours List 2014 – Higher Awards", "Keir Starmer: the Brexit opponent making Labour heard on Europe", "Keir Starmer: 'My mum's health battles have inspired me, "Business Transacted and Orders Approved at The Privy Council Held by The Queen at Buckingham Palace on 19th July 2017", "Honorary Graduates – Profile: Keir Starmer QC", "Keir Starmer QC, awarded honorary doctorate by east London university", "Keir Starmer QC awarded an LSE Honorary Degree", "Leading legal figure awarded Honorary Degree", https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Keir_Starmer&oldid=983019337, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, Bar Council's Sydney Elland Goldsmith Award in 2005, for his outstanding contribution to. Extract. Since being a minister, Ms Cooper has reinvented herself as the chairwoman of the Home Affairs Committee, presiding over some forensic questioning of ministers over issues including the Windrush scandal. She is expected to portray herself as the torchbearer for Jeremy Corbyn's legacy, and will be boosted if the pact with close friend Angela Rayner - potentially a rival - is confirmed. Should the new Labour leader be Keir Starmer, and should he resist the temptation to reopen the EU debate and does indeed maintain the vast majority of Labour’s domestic policies, it is entirely possible that Labour could gain power with him at the helm. [32] In 2010, and 2012, Starmer said that there was insufficient evidence to prosecute two members of the UK security services for their alleged role in torture overseas, but supported further investigation. [31] In the same year, he also supported proposals to legally recognise different degrees of murder. [16][14] From 1986 to 1987, Starmer edited the radical magazine, Socialist Alternatives. Starmer also revealed that his mother was diagnosed with Still’s disease in her teens – a chronic and incurable illness which causes painful swelling to the joints and muscles. Ms Cooper, who is married to former minister Ed Balls, told the BBC's Today programme this morning she would decide over the Christmas break whether to run for the leadership. He was a toolmaker by trade and used his engineering skills to help his wife, Jo, when her mobility became impaired, creating a modified wheelchair in which he could push her up the lake district climbs. [68] On taking up the role, Starmer resigned from a consultancy position with the law firm specialising in human rights, Mishcon de Reya LLP, that had acted for Gina Miller in bringing legal proceedings against the Government. Sir Keir Starmer is at the centre of a 'Wikipedia-war' today as the word 'millionaire' was repeatedly removed from his official page. He said Mr Corbyn had been right to make Labour an ‘anti-austerity’ party and - in a clear attempt to distance himself from the legacy of Tony Blair - he said the party could not afford to go back to ‘some bygone age’.
[85][86] But, despite various criticisms, he said that "the government is trying to do the right thing.
[99], Starmer has stated that his advocacy of socialism is motivated by "a burning desire to tackle inequality and injustice". [25], Later in 2009, when the Conservative Party proposed repealing the Human Rights Act, Starmer defended it as a "clear and basic statement of our citizen's human rights". last weekend in East Surrey Hospital. Whilst Labour’s manifesto is already chock full of popular policies, Starmer’s personal vision – other than simply keeping a lot of Corbyn’s policies whilst focussing on improving the image of the party to the electorate – is a complete unknown. Coronavirus cases have risen 'in 19 out of 20 areas' under local lockdown, Boris branded 'biggest idiot PM ever' in stinging Labour attack on Government, Wirral pub mocks ‘Three Bellends’ Johnson, Hancock and Cummings with new sign, Quality Street tubs missing certain chocolates as coronavirus halts production, Students handed coronavirus test kits that had already been used, Dominic Cummings has up to £50,000 unpaid council tax bill ‘written off’, Married PC filmed sobbing in ambulance ‘after strangling lover’, Jeremy Corbyn apologises to Labour MPs but vows to stay on until there’s a new leader, Tony Blair and Sadiq Khan among Labour grandees to attend Frank Dobson’s Funeral. As part of the impending leadership election, Evolve Politics will be publishing in-depth profiles on each candidate to give Labour members and the general public the full picture of where they came from, what they stand for, where their priorities lie, and what to expect, should they be elected as Labour leader on April 4th. "[5], In his teenage years Starmer was active in Labour politics, and was a member of the East Surrey Young Socialists. [96] He attacked the Government's handling of the COVID-19 crisis, calling it "serial incompetence" and suggesting that Prime Minister Boris Johnson was "just not up to the job". 'I think we clearly do have to change because it hasn't worked,' she said. [80] He went on to win the leadership contest on 4 April 2020, beating rivals Rebecca Long-Bailey and Lisa Nandy, with 56.2% of the vote in the first round,[81] and therefore also became Leader of the Opposition. — Keir Starmer (@Keir_Starmer) May 17, 2015. Mr de Menezes’s cousin, Vivian Figuierdo, said "we are all in shock and simply cannot understand how the deliberate killing of an innocent man and an attempt by the Metropolitan police to cover it up does not result in a criminal offence. And, speaking just a few days ago, Starmer reiterated the claim that it was the CPS who made the decisions in this case rather than him, stating: “It is very important that if there are any allegations that anybody thinks have not been looked into sufficiently, or at all, that they go to the police so they can be looked into.